Re: Lisp on an FPGA

My Google skills must be deficient, I never saw that one, and it is
about as close as one can get. Lessee, Morrison writes: "...a set of
concepts which, based on my experience over the last 30 years, I think
really does provide a quantum jump in improving application development
productivity."

What a nut job! Any #lisp yobbo can tell you Cells is a figment of my
imagination. A couple of them blogged their disappointment that I
focused on the tired old Cells story at ECLM. Meanwhile exactly one hand
in ninety-six went up when I asked how many of them used Cells, and that
person is a Cells committer!

Let's see what else my fellow delusionist has to say:

"While this technology has been in use for productive work for the last
20 years, it has also been waiting in the wings, so to speak, for its
right time to come on stage. Perhaps because there is a "paradigm
shift" involved, to use Kuhn's phrase (Kuhn 1970), it has not been
widely known up to now, but I believe now is the time to open it up to a
wider public."

"The time is now ripe for a new paradigm to replace the von Neumann
model as the bridging model between hardware and software."

"It forces developers to focus on data and its transformations, rather
than starting with procedural code. It encourages rapid prototyping and
results in more reliable, more maintainable systems. It is compatible
with distributed systems, and appears to be on a convergent path with
Object-Oriented Programming. [See Cells. ed]

"Does it sound too good to be true? You be the judge! In the following
pages, we will be describing what I believe is a genuine revolution in
the process of creating application programs to support the data
processing requirements of companies around the world."

Raving lunatic!

"In this book, I will describe the concepts underlying this technology
and give examples of experience gained using it."